High dresser
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Oak, softwood and brass
Measurements
220 x 205 x 58 cm
Place of origin
North-West of England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871517
Summary
An oak high dresser, English, late 18th century. The rack associated with the base, and with a moulded cornice above an open rack of two moulded shelves, each with a simple stay-rail. The inverted breakfront base having a central fielded paneled door beneath an edge-moulded drawer, between fluted pilasters and two banks of three graduated drawers, on bracket feet.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1957 and given to NT by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley as part of the Endowment